Non-interlacing,feedable pin for badges



June 30, 1970 FRIAGLlA 3,517,419

NON-INTERLACING, FEEDABLE PIN FOR BADGES Filed Nov. 6, 1969 "F163 FIG. 4

INVENTOR DANTE J. FRIAGLIA BY 75w M ATTO R N EYS United States Patent 3,517,419 NON-INTERLACING, FEEDABLE PIN FOR BADGES Dante J. Friaglia, West Caldwell, NJ., assignor to Danira Corporation, Newark, N.J., a corporation of New Jersey Filed Nov. 6, 1969, Ser. No. 874,565 Int. Cl. A44b 9/02 US. Cl. 24-103 '10 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A pin for badges in which a resilient wire is shaped with wings or loops diametrically disposed with respect to a pin, every portion of the pin or loop is dimensioned sufficiently small to prevent a portion of any other pin to interlace with it.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION Field of invention This invention relates generally to pins for badges and specifically to pins for badges which are formed with adjacent portion very closely spaced from each other whereby they cannot interlace, can therefore be fed into automatic machinery, and can be applied to buttons and badges by machine rather than manually.

Prior art Numerous pins for buttons and badges have been devised in an industriy which dates back at least to the middle of the 19th century. To this day, pins are inserted manually in buttons and badges, because automatic machinery has not been devised to handle the job. One of the reasons why such machinery has not been devised is that the pins cannot be automatically fed. They form a tangled, interlacing mass the requires intelligent manual intervention to disentangle the pins.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION It has been found that pins can be devised which do not interlace, for they do not have open, interfitting portions. Such pins are suitable for automatic machinery. Such pins have a longitudinal straight back wire with integral, small, tightly looped end enlargements extending latitudinally with respect to the back, and an integral portion of the wire in general parallelism with the back wire, and terminating in a point. The integral end looped enlargements are formed too small to receive and interlace with another pin. Thus, the non-interlacing pin can be positioned by automatic machinery for insertion into a badge or button, without manual intervention.

DRAWING These objects and advantages, as well as other objects and advantages may be attained by the device shown by way of illustration in the drawing in which:

FIG. '1 is a front elevational view;

FIG. 2 is a sideelevational view;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of a second species;

FIG. 4 is a side elevational view of the second species;

FIG. 5 is a veitical sectional view of a badge or button;

FIG. 6 is a vertical sectional view of a badge or button with a pin applied under the skirt; and

FIG. 7 is a vertical sectional view of a badge or button which is covered and a collet is engaged under the skirt to hold the cover in place.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now to the drawings in detail, first as to the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a wire 11 is pro- 3,517,419 Patented June 30, 1970 vided which is provided with a first section 12, terminating in an 180 first bend 13, and a second section 14 which is generally parallel with the first section 12 and extends beyond the first section 12 a substantially equal distance. The second section 14 terminates in an 180 second bend 15. The second bend 15 is followed by a third section 16 extending toward the end of the first section 12. The second section 14 is arcuate so as to conform to, and seat itself on the skirt of a button as Will be hereinafter set forth. The first and third sections 12, 16 are also arcuate and closely spaced to the second section 14, the distance being sufficiently small to exclude any portion of another wire 11 from entering, thereby avoiding any interlacing of pins with the first, second, and third sections 12, 14 and 16.

The third section 16 terminates in a 45 bend 17, from which extends a relatively long, straight fourth section or back portion 18. The plane defined by the fourth section is slightly offset from the plane defined by the first, second and third sections 112, 14 and 16, as will be seen in FIG. 2. The fourth section 18 terminates in a 45 bend, from which the wire 11 continues as the fifth section 20. The fifth section 20 terminates in an 180 bend 21. From that bend 21, a sixth section 22 extends generally parallel with the fifth section 20 and substantially an equal length beyond it to another 180 bend 23-. That bend 23 is succeeded by a seventh section 24. The sixth section 22 is arcuate as is the second section 14 to enable the opposite end of the wire also to conform and seat itself on the skirt of a button. The fifth section 20 and the seventh section 24 are also arcuately disposed in general parallelism with the sixth section 22 and are closely spaced together the distance between them being sutficiently small enough to exclude any portion of another wire 11 pin from entering the space at that end.

The seventh section 24 ends in a bend 25, after which the wire 11 continues as a relatively long eighth section or front portion 26, terminating in a sharp point 27. The eighth section 26 is in approximate close abutment and parallel with the fourth section 18. The plane defined by the fifth, sixth and seventh sections is offset from the plane defined by the fourth section 18 as will be seen in FIG. 2.

The embodiment shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 differs from that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 in that the wire 11 is provided with end-wings (FIGS. 1 and 2), as opposed the Wire 30 being provided with end-loops (FIGS. 3 and 4). 'In 'FIG. 3, end 31 of the wire 30 starts with a generally circular 360 loop 32, at the end of which, along, straight section 33 extends, terminating in another generally circular loop 34. Boths loops 32, 34 are of substantially the same diameter so that they or similar loops on other wires may not enter each other and interlace. The second loop 34 ends in a relatively long straight section 35, in general parallelism with the first section 33. As is the case with the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the embodiment shown in FIG. 4 has loops 34, 32 which lie in planes which are slightly offset from the plane defined by the straight section 33.

While conventional badge pins having semicircular sections with an intersecting diametrical section, are found to interlace, and cannot be automatically fed into automatic machinery for insertion into badges, the embodiments shown herein have no portions which can interlace with any portion of similar pins, so that each pin will always remain separate and apart from similar pins, and can be automatically fed into automatic pin insertion machinery.

FIG. 5 illustrates a conventional button, as a generally circular shell 37, with an integral skirt 38. The skirt 38 is a bent-in, peripheral portion of the shell lying over the body of the shell and defining a flange that will receive and seat a pin. Printed material may be applied to the face of the shell 39. In FIG. 6, a pin has had its outer ends deflected and fitted under the skirt 38. FIG. 7 illustrates a somewhat different form of button in which there is also a shell 39 and a skirt 38, but a covering 40 is wrapped over the shell 39., over the skirt 38 and under the skirt 38; a collet in the form of a truncated conical annulus is positioned under the skirt 38, to hold the covering 40 in place. The pin 11 (30) is then applied to the button, this time engaging and seating on the collet 41 rather than the skirt.

Brass is a satisfactory material for the pin, but other metals which are strong and resilient may be used, as long as they have sufficient resiliency to be deformed to fit under the skirt 38 or collet 41 and strongly engage and seat within the shell 39.

The foregoing description is merely intended to illustrate an embodiment of the invention. The component parts have been shown and described. They each may have substitutes which may perform a substantially similar function; such substitutes may be known as proper substitutes for the said components and may have actually been known or invented before the present invention.

What is claimed is:

1. A non-interlacing, feedable pin for badges or the like comprising (a) a length of resilient Wire (b) a straight, back portion of the wire,

(c) loops bent in the wire at both ends of the back portion, defining integral enlargements extending transverse to the back portion of the wire,

(d) an integral front portion of the wire disposed in general parallelism and abutment with the back portion,

(e) a point on the end of the front portion,

(f) the loops being sufficiently tight to exclude entry of another identical pin.

2. The device according to claim 1 in which the loops are generally circular.

3. The device according to claim 1 in which the loops are generally wing-shaped.

4. The device according to claim 3 in which the generally wing-shaped loops are generally arcuate transversely with respect to the back portion.

5. The device according to claim 1 and (a) a shell,

(b) a skirt on the shell,

(0) the back portion of the wire deflected to engage ends of the loops resiliently under the skirt and in captured engagement with the shell.

6. The device according to claim 1 and (a) a shell,

(b) a skirt on the shell,

(0) a collet captured by the skirt on the shell,

(d) the back portion of the wire deflected to engage the loops resiliently under the collet in engagement with the shell.

7. The device according to claim 1 in which the planes defined by the loops are offset from the plane defined by the back portion.

8. The device according to claim 1 in which the planes defined by the loops are offset from the plane defined by the back portion, the loops are generally wing-shaped, and also arcuate transversely with respect to the back portion.

9. The device according to claim 8 in which the loops are disposed to extend symmetrically transverse to the back portion.

10. The device according to claim 1 in which the loops are disposed to extend symmetrically transverse to the back portion.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 650,962 6/1900 Adams 24-450 654,297 7/1900 Whitehead 24-103 780,294 1/1905 Keplinger 24-103 842,782 l/ 1907 Goerdes 24-103 3,241,203 3/ 1966 Quisling 24-6 XR DONALD A. GRIFFIN, Primary Examiner 

